Abstract

GAMARRA-AMAYA, Laura Cecilia; VENEGAS-SEGURA, Andrés Arturo  and  FINO-PUERTO, Nelson Ricardo. Protecting collective rights in Colombia: group actions implementation, and an approximation to U.S. class actions concept. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2023, vol.21, n.44, pp.1004-1026.  Epub Oct 01, 2023. ISSN 1900-6586.  https://doi.org/10.21830/19006586.1111.

The defense of collective rights, and the appropriate reparation of damages to victims is a recent development issue in the Colombian legal system. Although some legal provisions mentioned damages to an indeterminate group of people in cases of negligence, it was not until the 1991 Constitution that Colombia established the types of actions all individuals or groups can initiate to advocate for the integrity of their rights in the lace of illegal actions or omissions by the State. There is currently no mechanism for groups to sue private entities efficiently that guarantees all individual and collective rights, akin to class actions. This scientific article delves into the multifaceted landscape of collective rights protection in Colombia, focusing specifically on the mechanisms and implications surrounding the deployment of group actions.

Keywords : Class action; collective human rights; comparative law; group action; individual human rights.

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